When we met up with Jim Power the other day, the EV Mosaic Man had just completed mosaics on a pair of planters at 1st Ave and St Marks.

O’Flaherty’s Gallery, 55 Ave C, burnished its cred as the neighborhood’s singularly authentic avant garde art headquarters by issuing an open call that is actually open.

Some three dozen Parisian artists will converge this weekend on a pair of Mouffetard establishments. cover art by @demoisellemm

Some 30 artists took part in the first of two days of the Midtown Modern Art Fair at the Blue Gallery, 222 E. 46th St..

Street art legend Al Diaz recently discussed his art, its inspiration and future direction, at West Chelsea Contemporary.

Michael Alan Alien @ The Village Works Gallery and Bookstore with a special performance of “The Human Canvas” by Jadda Cat.

Frieze New York 2022 runs through May 22 at The Shed, 545, W. 30th St.

VOLTA Art Fair is open May 18-22, 548 West 22nd Street, the former Dia Building and Hauser & Wirth gallery space

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD opens on Friday, May 20, and runs through Sunday, May 22, 2022, at Center415, 415 Fifth Avenue.

Shows by Jin Jeong at Half Gallery Annex, 233 E 4th St., and Young Lee in the main Half Gallery, 235 E 4th St.

A new show of work E.F. Higgins, the king of mail art, opened May 12 at Van Der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St.

The Independent Art Fair kicked off its 13th edition on May 5 at Spring Studios, 50 Varick St.

The New Art Dealers Alliance launched the 8th edition of NADA New York, at Pier 36, 299 South St.

Christopher Makos’ new exhibition MONEY features unseen vintage work from every stage of the artist’s life, including over 60 unique photographs, collages, and assemblages.

The Independent Art Fair kicks off on Wednesday, May 5, at Spring Studios, 50 Varick St.

Karma Gallery hosted the eagerly anticipated opening of “Allies,” a body of works by artist Alan Saret, April 21 at its 22 E. 2nd St. gallery.

Al Diaz and Richard Hambleton are among the Icons & Vandals that are part of a new show that opened April 23 at West Chelsea Contemporary, 231 10th Ave.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure is a joyous, immersive journey into the world the artist created, starting from his humble living room in Brooklyn to the Great Jones Street studio where he lived, worked and ultimately died.

A diverse group of street artists and other creatives, inspired by DJ-spun tracks and weed lit up lower Broadway April 16, for Community vs. Everything,

Downtown rock ‘n’ roll photographer Bobby Grossman’s new show Low Fidelity takes viewers back to lower Manhattan’s rock ‘n’ roll Big Bang.